The last patents for IDEA expired in 2012. Now it's free to use.
On 3 July 2014 21:24, Rich Salz via RT <r...@openssl.org> wrote: > As the changelog says for 0.9.8, > (IDEA remains enabled despite being patented. This is because IDEA > is frequently required for interoperability, and there is no license > fee for non-commercial use. As before, "no-idea" can be used to > avoid this algorithm.) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >
